Bug 1248504 (CVE-2015-0851) - CVE-2015-0851 xmltooling: incorrect processing of well-formed but invalid XML
Summary: CVE-2015-0851 xmltooling: incorrect processing of well-formed but invalid XML
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0851
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1248506
Blocks: 1248508
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Reported: 2015-07-30 12:26 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-03 03:55:29 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-07-30 12:26:12 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way the XMLTooling library parsed certain well-formed but schema-invalid XML inputs. An application using the XMLTooling library could crash when parsing crafted XML inputs.

Additional information:

http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150721.txt

Upstream patch:

https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-xmltooling.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d795c731e6729309044607154978696a87fd900
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-07-30 12:29:08 UTC 
Created xmltooling tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1248506]
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